Tom Rankin takes your questions on "Full Frame Festival," Friday at noon

Tom Rankin, director of Duke's Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), will preview films in this year's Full Frame documentary film festival, during a live "Office Hours" webcast Friday, April 15.

Rankin will also answer viewer questions during an online interview at noon on Duke University's Ustream channel. To submit a question, send an email before or during the webcast to live@duke.edu, tweet with the tag #dukelive or post to the Duke University Facebook page.

In his role at CDS, Rankin has been a longtime organizer and supporter of Full Frame. This year the festival will showcase nearly 100 films, chosen from about 1,200 submissions, at venues in downtown Durham from April 14 to 17.

A photographer, filmmaker and folklorist, Rankin has been photographing and interpreting the American cultural landscape for more than 25 years. He has served as chair of the Board of Trustees of the American Folklife Center in Washington, D.C., and is the author of a number of books of photography, including "Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible."

Office hours at a university are times when professors leave their doors open for individuals to stop by and discuss issues such as current events and developments in their fields. Duke's "Office Hours" series aims to bring the expansiveness and sparkle of these conversations to anyone with an Internet connection and an interest in the ideas bubbling up at Duke. This semester, topics have ranged from national security reporting to the preaching of Martin Luther King Jr., and marine life in Antarctica to the uprising in Egypt.